Cloudlink/EMC Assigned Patent

Cloudlink Technologies Inc., Ottawa, Canada, an EMC company, has been assigned a patent (9,021,264) developed by Nossik, Misha, Dumitrescu, Razvan, Du, Lejin, You, Zhengping, and Berfeld, Yuri, Ottawa, Canada, for a “method and system for cloud-based storage .”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method is disclosed wherein a first virtual machine is provided in execution. A storage area network for storing of data of the first virtual machine is also provided. A second virtual machine is executed for receiving first data from the first virtual machine for storage within the storage area network and for securing the first data to form secured first data and for storing the secured first data within the storage area network.“

The patent application was filed on February 3, 2012 (13/365,768).